Joyce Tremel

3 Series

Joyce Tremel is an American author known for her cozy mystery series, Brewing Trouble Mysteries. She has published flash fiction in Mysterical-e and non-fiction in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police magazine. Prior to her writing career, she worked as a police secretary for ten years.

In "To Brew or Not to Brew," the first book in Joyce Tremel's Brewing Trouble Mystery series, Maxine O'Hara is set to open her dream craft brew pub in Pittsburgh after earning her brewmaster certification in Germany. However, her plans are threatened when she discovers her assistant brewmaster and chef, Kurt Schmidt, strangled in one of the vats amidst acts of sabotage. With her father being a homicide detective, Max naturally takes on the challenge of solving the murder. Amidst her investigation, she adopts a stray gray tabby named Hops and considers hiring a handsome ex-hockey player as her new chef. Max must act quickly to uncover the killer before her new business fails.